Starmer says Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor should testify before US Congress about his past dealings with the late convicted sex offender.<\/p>\n
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The United Kingdom\u2019s Prime Minister Keir Starmer has suggested that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, a former prince, should cooperate with authorities in the United States investigating the Jeffrey Epstein files and activities.<\/p>\n
Speaking on Saturday to reporters at the end of a visit to Japan, Starmer said, \u201cAnybody who has got information should be prepared to share that information in whatever form they are asked to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cYou can\u2019t be victim-centred if you\u2019re not prepared to do that,\u201d he added, according to remarks carried by Sky News. \u201cEpstein\u2019s victims have to be the first priority.\u201d<\/p>\n
Asked whether Mountbatten-Windsor, the younger brother of King Charles III, should issue an apology, Starmer said the matter was \u201cfor Andrew\u201d to decide.<\/p>\n
His comments came as the US Justice Department said it would be releasing more than three million pages of documents along with more than 2,000 videos and 180,000 images under a law intended to reveal most of the material it had collected during two decades of investigations involving the wealthy financier, who died in a New York jail in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.<\/p>\n
The disclosures have revived questions about whether the former British prince, who was stripped of his title last year over his friendship with Epstein, should cooperate with the US authorities in their investigation.<\/p>\n
Mountbatten-Windsor \u2013 who has long denied any wrongdoing in relation to Epstein \u2013 has so far ignored a request from members of the US House Oversight Committee for a \u201ctranscribed interview\u201d about his \u201clongstanding friendship\u201d with the billionaire.<\/p>\n
The files have also prompted the resignation of Slovak official Miroslav Lajcak, who once had a yearlong term as president of the United Nations General Assembly.<\/p>\n
Lajcak was not accused of wrongdoing but left his position after emails showed that Epstein had invited him to dinner and other meetings in 2018.<\/p>\n
The newly released files also show Epstein\u2019s email correspondence with Steve Bannon, one-time adviser to US President Donald Trump; New York Giants co-owner Steve Tisch and other prominent contacts in political, business and philanthropic circles, such as billionaires Bill Gates and Elon Musk.<\/p>\n
The files show a March 2018 email from Epstein\u2019s office to former Obama White House general counsel Kathy Ruemmler, inviting her to a get-together with Epstein, Lajcak and Bannon. Lajcak said his contacts with Epstein were part of his diplomatic duties.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the US Department of Justice is facing criticism over how it handled the latest disclosure.<\/p>\n
One group of Epstein accusers said in a statement that the new documents made it too easy to identify those he abused, but not those who might have been involved in Epstein\u2019s criminal activity.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs survivors, we should never be the ones named, scrutinised, and retraumatised while Epstein\u2019s enablers continue to benefit from secrecy,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Starmer says Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor should testify before US Congress about his past dealings with the late convicted sex…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248621,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[591,59,57,58,50,6277,56,54,158,55,3544],"class_list":["post-402245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-europe","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-sexual-assault","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-states","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-us-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}